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Meeting with Israel’s 9 th President, Mr. Shimon Peres Peres Center for Peace

Experience a remarkable encounter with Mr. Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace. Witness the exchange of gifts and discussions on vulture conservation and peace initiatives in the Middle East.

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Meeting with Israel’s 9 th President, Mr. Shimon Peres Peres Center for Peace

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  1. Meeting with Israel’s 9th President, Mr. Shimon Peres Peres Center for Peace Wednesday, February 10th 2016 Photos: Yosef Avi Yair Engel (Jucha) From left: Brig. Gen. (Res.) Baruch Spiegel (ECF), Prof. Alexandre Roulin (University of Lausanne), General (Ret.) Mansour Abu Rashid (ACPD, Jordan), the Honorable Mr. Shimon Peres, Prof. Yossi Leshem (Tel Aviv University and the SPNI), Yona Bartal (Deputy Director General, Peres Center For Peace)

  2. Mr. Shimon Peres greets Prof. Alexandre Roulin

  3. Mr. Shimon Peres greets Gen. (Res.) Baruch Spiegel

  4. Mr. Shimon Peres and General (Ret.) Mansour Abu Rashid

  5. General Mansour, Chairman of the Amman Center for Peace and Developmentand a key figure in the 1994 Peace Agreement between Jordan and Israel, appropriately sits below a sculpture of ”Shalom” (peace)

  6. Prof. Roulin presents Mr. Shimon Peres with the painting of the Bearded Vulture (“Peres” in Hebrew) flying above the Alps, painted especially for him by the Swiss artist Laurent Willenegger

  7. Yossi Leshem presents Mr. Shimon Peres with two flight feathers from a Bearded Vulture from a Swiss captive breeding program at Zoo La Garenne, a gift from the University of Lausanne Photo: Guy Sali (SPNI)

  8. Mr. Shimon Peres looks at a book about Bearded Vultures received at the Davos event for Mr. Peres from Daniel Hegglin with a dedication from the Swiss Vulture Conservation Foundation Photo: Guy Sali (SPNI)

  9. The book “Der Bartgeier” (The Bearded Vulture) by Klaus Robin, Jürg Paul Müller and Thomas Pachlatko is about the reintroduction of the vultures to the Alps

  10. The Israeli President and the Jordanian General

  11. What an inspiring meeting with the Honorable Mr. Shimon Peres!

  12. The meeting was held at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa, on the Mediterranean coast - the delegation from the event at the World Economic Forum at Davos, together with Mr. Shimon Peres

  13. During the meeting Mr. Peres expressed his agreement to support the project to reintroduce the Bearded and Griffon Vultures to the Middle East, following the success of the project in the Swiss Alps and with the vision to see the Bearded Vulture flying free in the Middle East again in the near future A Bearded Vulture soaring over the Alps (Photo: Hansruedi Weyrich)

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